Monica Goodling, the DoJ liason to the White House, will testify, with immunity, tomorrow morning (Wed.) at 10:15am ET in front of the House Judiciary Committee. These early morning hearings are brutal for those of us bloggers on the West Coast, but we'd hate to miss this one.

Goodling broke down in tears on the morning the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal broke, and has copped the 5th, refusing to testify until given immunity. Why? We don't yet know exactly, but may find out tomorrow.

Career DoJ official David Margolis told Congressional investigators about her crying jag, and said, "I knew she must think everything was unraveling. And, you know, she was right about that."

TPMMuck has more from Margolis's deposition and on what we might expect in the morning. If you're watching, feel free to give us your thoughts in comments as things progress. Especially if she starts crying again. (Anyone want to wager on that?)

I think she'll be lyin' for Jesus this morning.
Folks such as her feel that "God's Law" is more important than American law. If she has to lie to deal with keeping the overall goal (Repubs right relegious nuts in power - for the purpose of making laws to help make us a "Christian nation") going, she'll do it. The trick will be for the questioners to catch her in some flip-flops with the truth.

As far as Monica breaking into tears - I say it'll be in the first hour of testimony...probably when she's making the "dog ate my homework" excuse for not turning over subpoenaed documents.

Guess Regent University didn't teach about penalties for contempt of Congress and violation of subpoenas.

She's a wimp and an amateur - and she thinks she's on a mission from God and did nothing wrong. If we're lucky, that self-righteousness may be what causes her to slip up in her testimony and give Gonzales, Rove, or Myers an "aw shit" moment.

You have to wonder though, why those high-priced attorneys wouldn't tell her to hand over everything to protect her immunity deal. Who's bankrolling these people? Maybe they really work for ROVE?

Wonder if she's figured out yet that they're going to throw her under the bus to save Karl?

Could a Monica again provide the impetus for the impeachment of a "President"? I doubt it. This one thinks she answers to a higher cause. It should be interesting if the Democratic Congresspeople don't drop the ball.

Is this going to be an open blogging thread for 6 or 7 of us like in the old days of The BradShow on RawRadio?

Check this out...the INN Report on Free Speech TV channel 9415 on DISH only. The last 10 minutes of this 30 minute news, is Mark Cripin Miller telling us exactly how serious this infiltration of Regent and Liberty christian fascists into our government is, it's no laughing matter!!!

After listening to the questioning from the Representatives so far I have little hope that much will be accomplished here and have grave doubts about ever getting to the bottom of this morass! The Republicans are all tools and the guy from Utah is a DISGRACE. So far, the Dems haven't impressed me much either, although I must say that the amount of time allotted for each questioner seems all too brief for some of the Dems and far too long for most of the Repugs.

In listening to my local NPR affiliate this morning, I'm catching little snapshot recordings of Goodling that sound like her opening remarks. If how she is portraying herself and her role in the prosecutor firings is true, then why the heck did she take the 5th? According to what I've heard so far, she did nothing more than possibly allow her exuberance for her political beliefs to taint her judgment somewhat, but not to a level that anyone could characterize as criminal.

I want to know WHY she took the 5th? You don't do that, unless a truthful accounting of your actions would criminalize you. Unless there's another reason for taking the 5th, which I don't know about.